The ST: Product & Collection Sort app helps to organize, sort and order products in your Shopify Store. This is done for collections that you enable in our app and as per the sorting strategy configured for each collection.
You can choose the frequency of the sort as per your requirement and also run a sort for individual collections on demand. We recommend running the sort once a day (during the night/at the time of less activity) so that the next day your store has products organized and sorted.
The ST: Product & Collection Sort app helps increase revenue by rearranging products on the collection pages, improving click-through rates and thus increasing conversion rates. The app uses advanced data analytics to assign product rankings using past data using our proprietary sorting algorithm.
The app also helps eliminate the manual task of sorting collection pages which is often error-prone and unmanageable for most store owners. It can automatically push sold out items to the bottom of the collection pages thus improving user experience and allowing you to execute your merchandising strategy effectively and efficiently.
The app gives you the power to create your merchandising strategy using a combination of rules to:
If you sort 1 collection on your store using our app algorithm, it counts as 1 sort.
e.g You wish to sort 10 of your collections once every day, that would mean you would consume 10 sorts in a day, This would mean 10 sorts x 30 days = 300 sorts in a month. This count will reset to zero every 30 days.
Sort count is not affected by the number of visitors on a website. There could be an unlimited number of visitors on your website and all of them will see the intelligently sorted collection page.
No, not at all. The sort count is not affected by the number of visitors on a website. There could be an unlimited number of visitors on your website and all of them will see the intelligently sorted collection page.
To be more specific, if you sort 1 collection on your store using our app algorithm, it counts as 1 sort irrespective of how many visitors see that page.
Likewise, if you sort 10 of your collections once every day, that would mean you would consume 10 sorts in a day, This would mean 10 sorts x 30 days = 300 sorts in a month. This count will reset to zero every 30 days.
Here are the steps you should follow to get started: https://merchandising.searchtap.io/quick-start
If you have any questions or need any help, drop us an email on merchandising@searchtap.io or book a 1:1 demo call using this link: https://merchandising.searchtap.io/book-a-demo
The goal of the ST: Product & Collection Sort app is to help you execute a robust merchandising strategy by sorting products in your Shopify store algorithmically.
Once you enable collections for sorting in our app and configure the sorting strategies for each collection, the app will automatically sort products for those collections. You can choose the frequency of the sort as per your requirement and also run a sort for individual collections on demand.
Please note that for enabled collections, our app will set the sorting order to manual to ensure Shopify does not change them and manage the order of products in these collections.
Pro tip: We recommend running the sort once a day (during the night/at the time of less activity) so that the next day your store has products organized and sorted.
In our experience, clients who have high traffic or products go out of stock frequently run the sort multiple times a day (let’s say every 4-6 hrs) and others just run the sort once every day for any given collection. You can configure which collection to sort and how frequently you wish to run the sort within the app under the Global settings.
Yes, we support both Smart as well as custom collections to sort products.
For collections that are enabled under the app, it will set the sorting order as "manual". Once the sort is run, the app will fetch sales and product data from the Shopify store to sort products based on the strategy you may have configured for that collection.
If you wish to go back to the default Shopify sort, you can mark the collection as disabled on the main page of the app. Then go to Shopify admin and set up the preferred sort order as usual.
Please note that our app does not make any changes or injects any code to your theme or your javascript files.
The number of sales per product is determined based on the total number of sales for a set period (lookback period configured in the settings). It does not matter if a product is on one collection or several.
The number of sales and revenue per product is calculated at a store level.
Featured products are those products which you might want to pin to the top of a collection or at a specific point in your sort order.
You can click the Pin Products button from the app's main page and use Product ID or Title/Name to search and pin any number of products to a collection. Once products are pinned, they will appear in the left-side section at the end of the screen. You can move products up and down by dragging them to their desired order using the icon.
Featured products will show at the location where the featured bucket is included in the collection's strategy. Most stores keep the featured products as the first bucket in all their strategies so that they can control which products they show at the top.
Pro Tip: All collections which have any featured products will have a “Featured” badge next to their name on the main page of the app.
Please note: These products will not be considered pinned and will be ignored entirely if the featured bucket does not exist in the strategy applied for that collection. We recommend placing the Featured Bucket at the top of each strategy to easily control which products show at the top. We also offer an additional feature to push featured products down when they go out of stock.
You can enable the "Push Out-of-stock Products Down" feature under configurations on the Strategy screen. This option will push all sold out items to the bottom of the collections where that strategy is applied.
Pro Tip: You have additional options to control this functionality for featured & new products when they are out of stock. You can also treat products with 'Allow to purchase a product when it's out of stock' enabled as either in-stock or out-of-stock.
Our app does not make any changes or injects any code or javascript files into your theme. We do not call any external service on the front end at all and that way the app does not slow down the website at all.
The app algorithm is completely automated and you can schedule it to run at a frequency of your choice. Most clients configure the algorithm to run automatically every 24 hrs.
We don't have a demo shop but we can do a personalised demo for you in one of our development shops. Feel free to schedule a Google Meet call for a detailed walkthrough using this link: https://merchandising.searchtap.io/book-a-demo
Alternatively, we offer a 7-day full trial of all our features so you can create a test collection and sort it via the app to explore its features.
We currently consider the sum of all variants which are in stock for the inventory sort. We also have an option to sort by variant availability. E.g. Products that have all/maximum variants in stock will show at higher positions than the ones which have only a few variants available.
We do have a product pin feature to control the products you wish to show and in whichever order you want. You can manually select them and group them. These products will show at the location where the featured bucket is included in the collection's strategy.
Alternatively, you can create a Custom rules bucket that works on conditions. For example, you can set tag or title based conditions (e.g. tag contains floral) to group products together.
There is no clean way to do this. You can choose to randomly sort new products for a couple of weeks or sort them by inventory to start with.
Alternatively, you can use a revenue sort of order for them so whenever the orders start coming in, then the products that have sold will automatically bubble up in higher positions.
We do not have an option to hide Sold Out Items but we can, however, push sold out items to the bottom of the collection page whenever the sort runs.
Here is what each date type means in Shopify.
Our app allows you to create multiple strategies that use a set of rules to sort products. You can create multiple buckets (think of them as rules that group products together) and combine them to sort a collection. Each bucket follows a rule or a combination of rules to sort products.
You can add as many buckets as you want to each strategy and each of these buckets can sort & order products by:
Please note: We offer many predefined strategies that you can make use of for sorting your collections. All these strategies comes with predefined buckets which you can edit as per your liking.
You can use this option to restrict the number of products in a bucket. e.g If you want to show new products or high Inventory products but want to limit it to just 5 products, you can use this option and enter the number of products you want in that specific bucket.
Once you choose the bucket as New, the app automatically ask you how many days old products should be considered as new. For some stores, this might be the last 10 days while for others it might be the last 30 days. You can configure this as per your needs.
Additionally, the app asks you to choose the date which we should consider amongst Created Date, Published Date or Updated Date. Here is what each date type means in Shopify.
Lastly, you can restrict the number of new products in this bucket. e.g If you want to limit the new products, you can use this Enable Product Capping and enter the number of products you want in the new bucket.
Variant Availability Ratio means the number of variants that are in stock vs the total number of variants available for a product. E.g. if 2 out of 5 variants are in stock, the variant availability ratio would be ⅖ x100 = 40%.
Custom rules is a special bucket that contains products that match certain conditions. E.g. products that are tagged as "black party dresses" and have inventory > 50
You can choose that the products match either all the conditions or any of the conditions based on Product Title, Tag, Vendor, Product Type, Product Created/Updated/Published Date, Number Of Days Since Created/Updated/Published, Price, Discount, Inventory, Revenue, Number Of Sales and Variant Availability Ratio.
Merchandising strategy is a set of rules that you configure to sort products in your collections.
For each strategy, you can create multiple buckets (think of them as rules that group products together) and combine them to sort a collection. Each bucket follows a rule or a combination of rules to sort products.
You can add as many buckets as you want to each strategy and each of these buckets can sort & order products by:
Please note: We offer many predefined strategies that you can make use of for sorting your collections. All these strategies come with predefined buckets which you can edit as per your liking.
Under the Strategies section, you can use the app's pre-configured merchandising strategies or create your unique strategy by configuring your sorting rules. Such strategies can be easily applied to any collection storewide which is enabled in our app and will sort that collection by the rules configured under that strategy. These are known as Global strategies.
Among all the strategies that exist on your account, you can choose a strategy that will be automatically applied when you enable a collection sort within our app. This is called the default strategy.
We recommend that you choose the strategy that you want to apply to the maximum number of collections as your default strategy.
The icon next to a strategy name explains the set of rules you have configured for that strategy. It explains all the rules configured for each bucket within the strategy so that you can easily understand how the products in a collection will be sorted once this strategy is applied to a collection.
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The Product Shuffle sort option is not available on legacy plans. Please upgrade your plan to use this feature.
The Product Shuffle - Advanced sort option is not available on legacy plans. Please upgrade your plan to use this feature.
Yes, you can use the “Sort Now” button for any particular enabled collection or even sort the entire store by using the "Sort All Collections" button on the main page of the app.
Please note that sorting all enabled collections for your store might take some time depending on the number of products, orders, collections in your store and we recommend that you run this automatically using the Automatic Sorting option available under “Global Settings”.
If you want to exclude a specific collection from the app, simply mark the collection as disabled on the main page of the app.
Then go to Shopify admin and set up the preferred sort order as usual.
No, we do not update any product or collection data. We merely update the sorting order of the products in the collections which are enabled in our app.
We DO NOT remove, delete, modify, update any of your existing product or collection information or metadata.
After each successful smart collection sort, our app creates an unpublished collection named st-merchandising-cache-flush automatically to burst Shopify’s cache. Once the cache is cleared, our app automatically removes this collection from the store. This activity is visible in the “Store activity” section of Shopify and takes a couple of seconds only. This helps us show newly assigned product rankings to your website visitors immediately. Do note that none of your existing collections is deleted or affected by this activity and you can ignore this message.
We only pull order data from Shopify to determine the revenue and sales generated for each product in the last 365 days. This helps us identify trending products that can be promoted using sorting rules.
We do use cookies, pixels for our marketing efforts and also store information about you as a user of the app including Shopify store domain, Shopify store email, Shopify store country and owner's name for our records.
We DO NOT track your customers using pixels or cookies.
Feel free to check our privacy policy at the bottom right corner of the app.
The catalogue page is a special "virtual" page created by Shopify. For this reason, our app does not have access to this page. The URL of this page typically looks like this: https://shopify-store-name/collections/all
Refer to this article from Shopify to understand how you can “Change your catalog page” to make it visible in our app: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/os/customize/change-catalog-page
Once this is done, the collection will appear in our app and you will be able to enable it for sorting.
Open the strategy applied for that collection and check if the "Push Out-of-stock Products Down" feature under configurations is enabled and sort has recently been completed.
If the settings are correct and sorting is complete, some other sorting rules mightbe causing this.
For example:
In case you are not able to figure it out, feel free to contact us with the details of the products and collection at merchandising@searchtap.io
The most common reasons for this issue:
In case you are not able to figure it out, feel free to contact us with the details of the products and collection at merchandising@searchtap.io
Our app changes the sort order in Shopify and sets it to Manual and is not dependent on any other app. If you were not using Globo, you would have seen the updated product rankings instantly.
However, Globo does has the option to pick the product positions from Shopify which our app will set. This link might help you make the correct settings in Globo: https://globosoftware.net/kb/sort-the-product-order-manually
Once you choose the default sort as “Same current collection sort”, do sync your data manually once from the Globo dashboard to see the correct sort order after our sorting algorithm has run. Also, you might have to ask their support how often they sync product position data from the Shopify backend to update the website pages.
Lastly, if you are still not able to figure this out, we’ll be more than happy to get on a screen share with you to explore the correct settings. You can book a call with us using this link: https://merchandising.searchtap.io/book-a-demo
The catalogue page is a special "virtual" page created by Shopify. For this reason, our app does not have access to this page. The URL of this page typically looks like this: https://shopify-store-name/collections/all
Refer to this article from Shopify to understand how you can “Change your catalog page” to make it visible in our app:
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/os/customize/change-catalog-page
What if you want to sort vendor collections that may be using brand names? The link to these collections usually looks like this: https://shopify-store-name.com/collections/vendors?q=brand-name
Unfortunately, this type of links can't be processed by the app, because all links with query string are virtual collections. They can't be accessed via API and are created at the time of when the user clicks on this link.
However, there is a workaround. You can create automated collections in Shopify based on the vendor.
For example, instead of https://shopify-store-name.com/collections/vendors?q=brand-name, you can create a link such as https://shopify-store-name.com/collections/vendors-brand-name. The way the app will see these collections and will also help you in SEO.
Refer to this article from Shopify to understand how you can create collections based on the vendor:
Once this is done, you can enable these collections in our app and it will be able to sort them.
Unfortunately, no. The search results page is controlled by Shopify and your store's theme or a third-party app (such as Sparq.ai, Searchanise, etc) if you use one. It does not exist as a collection and is not accessible for this app.
After each successful smart collection sort, our app creates an unpublished collection named st-merchandising-cache-flush automatically to burst Shopify’s cache. Once the cache is cleared, our app automatically removes this collection from the store. This activity is visible in the “Store activity” section of Shopify and takes a couple of seconds only. This helps us show newly assigned product rankings to your website visitors immediately. Do note that none of your existing collections is deleted or affected by this activity and you can ignore this message.
You can go to the apps page and click 'Delete' to uninstall the app.
Since the app does not add any code to your themes, so there is nothing to remove manually. We highly recommend you go back and set the sort order for your collections in your Shopify admin panel.
In case you are facing any issues with our app, please feel free to send us an email at merchandising@searchtap.io so that we can help you out to the best of our abilities!
We're open to your suggestions. Feel free to send us an email at merchandising@searchtap.io and we will try our best to accommodate your requests if they align with our product roadmap.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. In case you are not able to figure it a solution by reading the FAQs or the app is not working for you for any reason, feel free to contact us with the details at merchandising@searchtap.io